Example sentences of "[is] [vb pp] the [num ord] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The first day of bleeding is considered the first day of the menstrual cycle , when the unfertilised egg and the lining of the womb is shed and discharged . |
| 2 | An announcement , perhaps blessed by Microsoft , is expected the last week in January . |
| 3 | A famous passage in Virgil 's Fourth Eclogue gives expression to the concept of the ‘ Eternal Return ’ : ‘ Now is come the last age of the song of Cumae ; the great line of the centuries begins anew … |
| 4 | This AGREEMENT is made the 29th day of January 1988 |
| 5 | This AGREEMENT is made the 29th day of January 1988 |
| 6 | THIS AGREEMENT is made the 13th day of February one thousand nine hundred and ninety in Ghent |
| 7 | THIS AGREEMENT is made the twenty-third day of November , one thousand nine hundred and eighty-nine |
| 8 | THIS AGREEMENT IS made the first day of February 1989 between of ( ‘ The Publisher ’ ) and of ( ‘ The Distributor ’ ) |
| 9 | So she 's written the first syllable as she feels it sounds ( coff- ) and that triggers the -ee . |
| 10 | But he 's done the next best thing by getting himself a uniform and a car . |
| 11 | ‘ But he 's birdied the first four of the second nine . |
| 12 | When this is done the last equation becomes . |
| 13 | It was not always thus : in 1983 , when Christie 's sold the first batch of 25,000 pieces of Ming porcelain , found ( also by Hatcher ) in a junk on a reef on the South China Sea , prices were low , because neither auction house nor collectors could see beyond the porcelain 's dull glaze to its historic possibilities . |
| 14 | If it 's sold the first lender takes priority . |
| 15 | Coulter 's opened the first Ford fast-fit and next week Pentlands will open the first Vauxhall Masterfit depot opposite their dealership on Belfast 's Ravenhill Road . |
| 16 | Christie 's offered the second part of the important Korthaus collection in a mixed owner sale . |
| 17 | The quantities U , q and w are related by the equation This mathematical relationship is called the first law of thermodynamics . |
| 18 | But it was getting out of those beta-waves , down into the alpha-waves and into what is called the fifth state of consciousness — the healing state — that was so difficult . |
| 19 | SunSoft says it 's reached the second milestone in its Project DOE ( Distributed Objects Everywhere ) programme and completed a distributed object system consisting of the DOMF ( Distributed Object Management Facility ) , SunSoft 's implementation of the Object Management Group 's CORBA specification , and a set of system objects . |
| 20 | If blood pressure is elevated the first question must be ‘ Am I using the correct size cuff ? ’ |
| 21 | Milk , after the baby is born the first time the baby actually has to digest its own food it has to process the food that it takes in , what 's in milk ? |
| 22 | The monomers then redistribute so as to restore balance in what is termed the first relaxation . |
| 23 | Worse , he 's spent the last hour with someone from the Daily Express . |
| 24 | The former holder of the world land speed rapping record ( 'til Curve 's mate JC001 half-inched it ) Freddy 's spent the last couple of years in the US working on his next LP . |
| 25 | ‘ Potter 's spent the last fifteen years harming people like Geoffrey . |
| 26 | ‘ Do n't even know what they 'd talk about ; a member of the factory-owning Scottish gentry and a second mate — or whatever Lachy is these days — who 's spent the last few years in Oz . |
| 27 | ‘ Do you think I 'm jealous of Eleanor because she 's spent the last four years with you , and I have n't ? ’ |
| 28 | Tomorrow in the final part of the series , a farmer who 's spent the last ten years converting his farm puts the case for organic farming . |
| 29 | Phil Farrand says that he 's spent the last two years building the car and has put hours of work into it … his machine runs on the same amount of power that drives a toaster or a hair dryer so much for ceremony … with the sun blazing down its time to race south … the track is the main Stewart Highway … |
| 30 | They 've never seen the people they phone them every week saying do you want a fifty pound advert in a paper which is dumped the next day . |